happybrowndog wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know how to detect when the windows screen saver comes on? > Any other kind of detection of windows being idle (ie: sleep or > whatever) would also be useful if you happen to know it. I'm basically > looking for whatever is easy to implement. My wxpython chat application > needs to know if the user has gone "idle" by detecting whatever > windows event will tell me that.
There *are* -- slightly awkward -- ways of doing such things (eg a combination of polling the GetSystemParameterInfo with the right flags and / or monitoring for a system power event) but I came across this article: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/GetIdleTimeWithCS.aspx which would seem to be do-able in Python with ctypes. Haven't tried it myself, mind you. TJG _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
